Last week in The Week That Was (http://www.letsrun.com/2011/week-0329.php), we had a blurb about Caleb Ndiku.
Letsrun.com wrote:
Anyone who thought Imane Merga's win over the the slew of Kenyans that surrounded him the sprint for home at World Cross-Country probably is questioning that assertion after he backed up that win last week with another win in a sprint finish against silver medallist Paul Tanui in Sardinia. Tanui was third in the race, as 18-year-old and 2010 World Jr. XC and 1,500 champ Caleb Ndiku beat Tanui to finish 2nd. It's pretty easy to spot who is going to be a future star and Ndiku seemingly fits the bill. One thing we were wondering is, does anyone know what he'd been up to early this year? We don't see any other 2011 results for him listed in the service we subscribe to and wonder why he didn't try out for World XC. If anyone knows, please email us.
Just wanted to let people know we received an email from an LRC visitor from France who wrote
A guy in France wrote:
To reply to your question about Caleb Ndiku and why he didn't try out for world XC.
Actually he did try out but didn't make the team for Spain after finishing 47th at the trials.
After running some 5ks on the track in Japan for his corporate team from October to December, Caleb was injured all the beginning of this year; so no training and ran the trials in not good shape. Now he is back!(Note: Letsrun.com sees that he ran 13:26.03 on Sept. 26 and 13:18 on Dec. 5)